Wololo Wednesdays: July Contest and June Winners

Jennifer Godwin

July 5, 2018

What’s up Wololo Warriors?

It’s time once again to step up and show your wololo spirit in our monthly contest! But first, lets take a look at the winners from June. This time we asked you to pick a civilization in any Age of Empires game and tell us about your favorite moment in their history. Here are our favorites:

Favorite campaign for me so far in an Age game has to be the Freedom Fight with Indian civilization from Age of Empires 3: Asian Dynasties.

I have always been fascinated by Asian history, and India’s in particular because there were many low level freedom fighters such as English infantry man Mangal Pandey and a young Sikh name Bhagat Singh. People of this side of the world only heard about Gandhi, but I highly encourage you to read about these two folks. Anyways, the reason why I picked this one, is due to it being very believable. There were many frequent incident like the Indian campaign in this period time of India, where a very frugal Indian Sepoy would start resistance movement against the Britishers general.

And the Indian campaign had similar structure…meaning that very clever protagonist secretly planning an attack on their general and freeing locals from the “British Raj (empire)”. That campaign not only captures the realism of this Indian time period, but it made us part of their revolution. So i liked that a lot.

Queen Seondeok of Silla’s construction of Hwangnyongsa Pagoda (“Dragon Temple”) is one of my favorite moments in Korea’s history. While battling her neighboring Korean kingdoms, Silla’s (and Korea’s) first queen constructed a massive 9-story pagoda in Gyeongju, South Korea. A towering testament to Silla’s resilience and Buddhist faith, Hwangnyongsa was built entirely of wood, with no nails, and at 262 feet tall was the tallest structure in all East Asia at the time. While it no longer stands, it has life in Age of Empires II, where (in a wonderful nod to history) it appears in the Noryang Point mission in the Battles of the Conquerors campaign, standing where Gyeongju roughly is on the Korean map.

My favorite part of Incan history is when the Incans defeated the Chimor (Chimu) Empire, which was quite possibly the strongest in South America at the time.

The Incans were able to accomplish this by taking advantage of the surrounding terrain. The Chimor capital of Chan-Chan was in a desert so the Incans took control of the rivers leading to it, and eventually the Chimor Empire had to surrender.

my favorite Civ will be the Britons, later British.
Battle of Agincourt is one of my favorite battle, because the odds of winning is very slim and yet they do it anyway by a sheer luck… muddy ground kind of luck. well of course with the help of longbowman (my favorite unit) pouring arrow to the french knight. (one of history about british stuck in the europe wanting to retreat back to england by the way!).

and much later on they evolve into “The empire on which the sun never sets”

My favorite moment in history for the Roman Empire would be the Battle of Cynoscephalae. This battle was between Rome and Macedon and would mark the end of the second Macedonian War. The Battle of Cynoscephalae was a showdown between the Roman Legions and the Macedonian Phalanx. The battle took place on a hill in Macedon. Both armies tried forcing their enemy to fight uphill. For most of the battle it went back and forth between who occupied the top of the hill. Eventually the Romans caught the Macedonians off guard and out maneuvered them forcing them to retreat, ending the second Macedonian War.

The battle started with the Romans fighting uphill.

The phalanx would go on to push the Roman Legions back.

This was a rare moment in history to see the Roman Legion and the Macedonian Phalanx face off head to head.

Eventually the Roman Legion prevailed and forced King Philip V and his army to retreat, and thus ending the second Macedonian War.

I will say that it was actually a cavalry charge from Rome that sent the Macedonians in retreat. King Philip V was sending in a second flank up to the top of the hill when suddenly they were attacked by Roman cavalry, unprepared. I really just wanted to depicte the battles between the Roman Legion flanks and the Macadonian Phalanx flanks. In my opinion, I think it is fascinating to have such a great recording of Roman Legions fighting off the Macedonian Phalanx.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated:)

On to this month’s contest!

We’ve just celebrated Independence Day here in the US, and we just want to keep the party going. To help with that this month we want you to show us how your armies in Age of Empires would celebrate winning their biggest battles! You can do this through an in game screenshot, hand drawn illustrations, Photoshop, really whatever you want! Just have fun with it:)

Your entry MUST include at least 1 image, no more than 4, and must relate to an Age of Empires game (or an illustration having to do with one). You may also include a written portion explaining your entry that may be no more than 600 characters in length (not including spaces); if your entry includes non-English words, you must provide an accurate English translation of those words in your written portion.

We’ll pick our five favorites, and the winners will each be able to choose two of the below prizes! We’ll reach out to the winners via private message on forums.ageofempires.com on the first Wednesday of the next month, so keep an eye on your inbox! Submissions must be appropriate, and must be submitted in the forum discussion thread here before 5:00 PM PDT on Wednesday July 25th, 2018. You can find the full official rules here.

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aloofstream9319July 22, 2018

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dycaiteJuly 13, 2018

Y'know what I'd prefer over these history lessons and these Wololo Wednesdays? If you guys actually FINISHED MAKING AOE DE!

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dark-riser68July 7, 2018

On community pages

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dark-riser68July 7, 2018

Hey Jennifer! After new forums I cannot log in with my account: superninja418.